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Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
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Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
Read more...
 
Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
Read more...
 
Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
Read more...
 
Turkish Gov’t. Leaves Eco-Dark Ages Behind By Lending Books to Students in Bid to Save Trees and..
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
pile of books photoIn a practice I can hardly fathom, the Turkish government has been giving 155 million new textbooks each year to students, most of which are thrown into the trash at the end of the year rather than simply requiring they return them for use by next year’s crop of students. Of course there’s not only an environmental cost to this enormous waste of resources, but an...
Read more...
 
Broadway Gets a Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly Makeover
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
broadway image Image Credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times NYC Improves a Major Mid-Town Street New York City, which recently unveiled a plan to be more bicycle friendly and is Read more...
 
Add Kidney Stones to List of Climate Ills
Written by thedailygreen.com article feed   
07/15/2008
Study Links Warming Climate to Painful Disease
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1% Water and Our Future: Art + Design Exhibition Gets Creative With H2O
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
Images from 1% Water Exhibition photo Trying to impart the idea that our planet has a serious water shortage is a real challenge. It's most especially difficult to convince those of us that have hot and cold running water day and night that we really need to conserve this precious resource. A new exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Belgium...
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The Most Important Report You'll Read This Year: "Breaking The Climate Deadlock"
Written by TreeHugger   
07/15/2008
tony-blair-breaking-climate-deadlock photo Times Are Changing The climate science debate is over. Policy action is what it's all about. In spite of the US' delaying actions, other developed nations and many large companies are focused on real policy choices. Even Tony Blair has stopped 'beating around the bush'. Scan Tony's recent speech on Read more...
 
Bertha Could Re-Gain Hurricane Strength
Written by thedailygreen.com article feed   
07/15/2008
Long-lived and Surprising, Bertha Lives On Nearly 2 Weeks After Forming
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